MELA Officers

You may contact the executive board at melaexec@mela.us

President 2023-2024
Heather Hughes
Middle Eastern Studies Librarian
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6206
president@mela.us

Past President 2023-2024
Mohamed Hamed, PhD.
Middle Eastern & Near Eastern Studies Librarian
University of California, Berkeley
438 Doe Library, 94720-6000
past.president@mela.us

Past President, 2023-2024
Anaïs Salamon
Head Librarian / Islamic Studies Library
McGill University
Morrice Hall, Room 109
3485 McTavish Street
Montreal, Quebec H3A 0E1
Phone: +1-514-398-4688
past.president@mela.us

Vice President-Program Chair, 2023-2024
Guy Burak
Librarian for Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies
New York University, Bobst Library
70 Washington Square S, New York, NY 10012, USA
vice-president@mela.us

Secretary-Treasurer, 2022-2025
William Kopycki
Field Director
Library of Congress, Nairobi Overseas Office
Nairobi, Kenya
secretary@mela.us

From the United States:
William Kopycki
Unit 8900 Box 067
DPO, AE
09831-0067

From outside the United States:
William Kopycki
Library of Congress
U.S. Embassy
United Nations Avenue
Gigiri, Nairobi,
KENYA

MELA Notes Editor, 2022-2025
Farshad Sonboldel, Ph.D.
World History and Cultures Librarian
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive #0175-C
La Jolla, CA 92093
melanoteseditor@mela.us

Webmaster, 2021-2024
Justin Parrott
Librarian for Acquisitions and Middle East Studies
New York University in Abu Dhabi
Saadiyat Island
Abu Dhabi, U.A.E.
webmaster@mela.us

kropf MELA site photoMELA Listserv Manager, 2022-2025
Evyn Kropf
Librarian for Middle Eastern & North African Studies and Religious Studies
Curator, Islamic Manuscripts Collection
University of Michigan Library
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1190
listowner@mela.us

Member-at-Large, 2022-2025
Leili Seifi, PhD.
Associate Professor
Department of Knowledge & Information Science
Faculty of Behavioral Science
University of Birjand, Birjand, Iran
Tel(Office): +98-56-31026855
memberal3@mela.us

Member-at-Large, 2023-2026
Marlis J. Saleh, PhD.
Bibliographer for Middle Eastern Studies
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL 60637
memberal1@mela.us

Member-at-Large, 2021-2024
Salma Abumeeiz
Research and Instruction Librarian
UCLA Library
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
memberal2@mela.us

Past Officers

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